It would be nice to have, but its not the most importent thing.
All of this has to be animated and tagged in dialogue.
They should start with the races from the player handbook plus those who are relevant for this story (e.g. Githyanki), then focus on polishing and bug fixing.
Same thing for classes.
If they have resources left they can add more, but the most importent thing is that the stuff which is there works without problems.
I do not think we will have races that look very different than humans.
- How would most people or even party members react to an extremely unusual race?
- How does such a char use and equip the same weapons, armors and tools as humans and how does this look?
I am happy if they surprize us with a huge selection of races and classes, but I would not bet on it in any case.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Mad S. Tist
World leading expert of artificial stupidity.
Because there are too many people who work on artificial intelligence already
